It's a nice model but the suction cups on the tentacles are too shallow for them to grip your phone or tablet. Looking down from above - the suction cups are at angles so the hard straight edges of your phone can only grab one shallow cup at a time. The rear is not slanted enough so if you put your phone on it - it is nearly vertical and easy to tip over. As other people noted - it just won't work as intended.One thing you can do with it is use it as a hook by putting it sideways on your wall or behind a closet door to hang something like a hat. Or paint it - because well....it looks cool.

While thats completely unfortunate that your tablet fell to floor cracking its screen, perhaps in the future you should exercise a little more caution when placing your electronics on things you made at home.

I've decided to branch out a little bit and evolve the design into something a bit simpler, smaller and more awesomeness. All the great and continued response has been fabulous and very encouraging. It might be a little unfortunate to many of you awesome users on Thingiverse, but I'm going to keep this new one on Shapeways for a good while. I'm not really keen on making a commercial enterprise out of this at the moment, but I really don't know of any other venue where I can continue to create and share without risk of people taking my work and misrepresenting it as there own.

hey, this is really cool. I would love to make this (and post a nice photo) but would you consider making a minor adjustment so that it can be printed on a fused filament printer without support? I think only the one tentacle tip that points down would require support, I think the rest could work. Could you bend that up at >60 degrees?

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